Mount Mulu

One of the highest mountains in Malaysia is Mount Mulu. Mount Mulu (Malay: Gunung Mulu) is a sandstone and shale mountain. At 2,376 meters, it's miles the second maximum mountain withinside the kingdom of Sarawak, after Mount Murud. It is positioned withinside the obstacles of Gunung Mulu National Park, which is called after it.

Mulu's limestone karst and remote mountain peaks are home to many specific and endangered plant life and animals. The mountain has organic structures ranging from lowland dipterocarp wooded areas to montane vegetation. The mountain is super for its pitcher plant diversity. Five species had been recorded from Mount Mulu: Nepenthes hurrelliana, Nepenthes lowii, Nepenthes muluensis, Nepenthes tentaculata, and Nepenthes vogelii.

The first a hit summit climb turned into made with the aid of using Tama Nilong withinside the early 1920s. He turned into a rhinoceros hunter and those creatures used to inhabit the excessive boggy lands around Mulu’s summit however at the moment are extinct from the region. The line of ascent that he found, the southwest ridge, remains the same old course utilized by humans to this day.

Height: 2,376 meters

Location: Sarawak, Malaysia